Wrapping-paper-printing apparatus.



No. 759,292. PATENTED MAY 10. 1904. P. L. MERGER. WRAPPING PAPERPRINTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED T13R24, 1902. RENEWED DEC. 18, 1903.

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No. 759,292. PATENTED MAY 10, 1904.

F. L. MERCER.

WRAPPING PAPER PRINTING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24,1902. RENEWED DEO.1B. 1903. NO MODEL. 2SHBETSSHBET 2.

THE norms warms co. mom-um), WASHWGTON n c Patented May 10, 1904.

PATENT, OFFICE.

FRANK L. MERCER, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

WRAPPlNG-PAPER-PRINTING APPARATUS- SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 759,292, dated May 10, 1904. Application filed February 24,1902. Renewed December 18, 1903. Serial No. 185,748. (No model.)

Be it known that I, FRANK L. MERCER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and. useful Improvements in Wrapping-Paper-PrintingApparatus; and 1 do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates more particularly to an apparatus for printing orimpressing the business card or advertisement of a merchant usingwrapping-paper drawn from a roll.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and economical meanswhereby the printing of such a card or advertisement can be effectedsimultaneously with the act of drawing the paper from the roll. theprinting operation being controlled by a manipulation of the paper.

Generally stated, the invention is embodied in a paper-roll holdercombined with devices for holding the printing device normally inactive,saiddevices being operative to release the printing device bymanipulation of the free end of the paper, substantially as hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

in theaeeompanying drawings, showing one embodiment of the invention,Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of the apparatus with one side ofthe frame removed to expose the printing-roll and the parts forcontrolling the same. Fig. 2 is a view of the inner side of theleft-hand portion of the frame that sustains the printing-roll and partscontrolling the same. Fig. 3 is a detail front view of theprinting-roller and inking device therefor. Fig. t is a top plan viewwith the printingroller and inking device therefor removed. Fig. 5 is aperspective View of the printingroller-controlling lever.

The supporting-frame comprises a base 1, having vertically andparallelly arranged standards 1 and outwardly extending from saidstandards parallelly-arranged bracketarms 1", having circular heads 1.The roll of paper is supported upon an appropriate spindle 2, bornebetween the standards 1,

and an inking-roller 3 and a printing-roller 4 are supported rotativelybetween the heads 1 in bearings 3" and 4, respectively, and parallel tothe paper-roll spindle.

The printing-roller-eontrolling lever 5 consists of a rectangular framehaving in the under sides of its end pieces bearings 53 to restpivotally on pins 1" on the inner sides of. the heads 1 below theprinting-roller and bearings 5" in the upper edges of said end pieces toreceive the stud shafts or bearings of a friction-roller 6. Theprintingroller-controlling lever also has a cross-bar 5, over which thepaper from the roll passes as it comes out of the apparatus, and aninwardly and upwardly extending pawl-arm 5 for the purpose to bepresently explained.

Fixed on that end of the printing-roller adjacent to the end of thecontrolling-lever having the pawl-arm 5 is a cam 7, having aratchet-tooth 7 at the shortest radius thereof adapted to be engaged bythe pawl-arm 5" to prevent the printing-roller from being operated bythe outdrawing of the paper until desired. Theprinting-reller-controlling lever is so weighted, as seen at 5 that theforward end thereof is normally held up, and a stop 8 is provided in thehead 1 to so limit such upward movement thereof that the pawlarm 5 shallnormally engage the teeth 7 0f the cam on the DIll'lblllg-lOllGl' toprevent the rotation of said roller. A slender rod 9 between the heads 1is shown to guide the paper from the paper-roll under the printing-rollin a definite direction. A guard or hood 10, of flexible sheet metal, isslid into channels 1 on the inner perimeter of the heads 1". The frontedge of the hood 10 can conveniently be formed to constitute a cuttingedge, as seen at 10, for severing the withdrawn portion of the paper. Toremove the hood, the inner edge can be flexed away from the stops 1",said stops serving to lock the hood after it is put in place.

The inking-roller 3 is shown to be made in the form of a spool ofconsiderably less length than the printing-roller and to run in acircumferential recess 4" in the printing-roller. To secure pressure ofthe inking-roller on the printing-roller, the spindle 3 of theinkingroller can conveniently be an elastic rod the ends of which mustbe bent or depressed to secure or seat them in their bearings 3" in thehead 1.

The usual follower-weight 11 to retard the paper-roll when paper iswithdrawn therefrom is shown to be employed.

The operation, which will be readily gathered from the foregoingdescription of the apparatus, is as follows: The free end of the paperafter it has been passed between the printing-roller 4 andfriction-roller 6 is taken with the fingers and pulled outward andupward until it is, desired to print thereon. When the printedimpression is desired, the paper is given a momentary downward pull ofsuflicient force on the cross-bar 5 of the controlling-lever 5 torelease the pawl-arm 5 from the cam-tooth 7 of the cam on theprinting-roller. This operation also lifts the friction-roller 6, thuspinching the paper to the printing-roller sufficiently to effect therotation of the printing-roller. This pressure continues and slightlyincreases under the action of the increasing radius of the cam againstthe pawl-arm 5 as the cam rotates with the printing-roller. During therotation of the printing-roller the printing form or device thereon isturned against the paper and the impression made. The printing device isof course so located with respect to the cam 7 as not to contact withthe paper passing under the printing-roller until the roller has beenreleased by the action of the controlling-lever 5.

The position of the cam 7 on the end of the printing-roller can bechanged so that the impression can be made soon or later after thecontrolling-lever has been depressed, and thus the position of theimpression varied with respect to the end of the paper.

The means for adjusting the cam 7 consists of a series of holes 7" inthe cam concentric to the axis thereof in connection with a stationarypin 7 on the roller, and the can] can be adjusted axially, so that anyone of said holes can be placed on said pin to prevent the cam fromturning on the roller.

What I. claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a wrapping-paper-printing apparatus, a printing-roller and aninking-roller therefor, a lever having a non-paper-cutting bar overwhich the paper is drawn as it comes from the apparatus, an arm on saidlever directly ongaging and holding said printing-roller from rotation,said lever being operative at the will of the user and by manipulatingthe paper to release the printing-roller and independently of anycutting of the paper.

2. In a wrapping-paper-printing apparatus, a printing-roller and aninking-roller therefor, a lever over which the paper is drawn as itcomes from the apparatus, a pawl-arm on said lever engaging and holdingsaid printingroller from rotation, said lever supported in the apparatusso as to be operated to release said pawl-arm by moving the paperlaterally from its path in one direction, and a cutting edge held in theapparatus independent of said lever to cut the paper when the latter ispulled in the opposite direction.

3. In a wrapping-paper-prin tingapparatus, a printing-roller and aninking device therefor, a friction-roller laterally movable toward theprinting-roller, combined with a leverhaving a printing-roller-lockingdevice thereon and over which the paper from the apparatus is drawn,arranged to be operated by manipulation of the paper to release thelocking device and move the friction-roller toward the printing-roller,substantially as described.

4. In a wrappingpaper-printin g apparatus, a printing-roller having atoothed cam device fixed on its end and an inking device for saidroller, a lever having a pawl-arm to engage said toothed cam device anda friction-roller carried by said lever, both the friction-roller andlever being actuated by manipulation of the paper to be printed.

5. In a wrapping-paper-printing apparatus, a printing-roller having atoothed device adjustably fixed on the end of said roller. an inkingdevice forsaid roller, a lever having a pawl-arm to engage said tootheddevice to lock said roller until actuated by a manipulation of the paperto be printed, substantially as described.

6. In a wrapping-paper-printing device, a frame, a printing-rollerjournaled in said frame and an inking-roller, bearings in the frametherefor, and an elastic shaft for said inking-roller bent to engagesaid bearings.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK L. MERCER.

Vitnesses:

BENJ. FINOKEL, GEORGE M. FINCKEL.

